The simplicity is awesome.. Graphical design is nice... Maybe this could become my new preferred DE. I'll keep testing it.

Some minor things I encountered: VASM is 2 times in the System menu, and when logged in as root the 'root terminal' doesn't start (perhaps this is normal to be like this), Sounds play nice however when going to System > Preferences > Sound and trying to test this I get: "audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: no element "gconfaudiosink" " otherwise: superb work dude!

I just tried to change the default theme, but Gnome gave up on me and locked the screen. Nothing could be done except a cold reboot. And no, it was no kernel panic this time So now I'm searching on a way to clear/clean my last used settings, when I was logged into Gnome. Cause I can't login to it anymore.. It hangs on the Gnome splash screen. I'll report back if I succeeded to get it running again, cause I really liked what I saw. Damn, I'm glad I'm in vacation now :p

When you tried to install new themes, did you install them using GNOME's theme manager, or by installing them directly into /usr/share/themes?Normally what I do it download the theme from gnome-look.org, open the theme manager (System -> Preferences -> Theme) and then click on the "Install Theme" button. A dialog apears and I select the tarball I just downloaded. The theme manager then extracts the tarball and installs the theme on its own.

I've heard about problems if GDM is not installed, but haven't experienced any myself. I'll build a GDM package and if it fixes the problem I'll add it to the gnomemeta package.

Thx for the response Easuter, but when playing around with the pre-installed themes, it always hangs when choosing Crux. I can't get around that problem.. Very weird. And it happened already for 3 times that I needed to remove the .gconf dir to get back in after playing with the theme manager.

I am on SOHO 5.8 RC2, maybe someone else could check this as you suggested. Would be strange if I am the only on who has that problem right? We'll wait for others to test. Thx again for the fine effort Easuter. Don't want to be always negative, cause I like your package

Nope I was running 5.8 Standard.I installed RC2 on a separate partition and then installed gnome and got the same problem as you when selecting a different theme. On Standard the themes all have previews, but on SOHO the themes appear with question marks on them and when trying to select one it freezes.....pretty weird behaviour

However, I can't seem to find what differences between SOHO and Standard would cause this since the theme package is exactly the same and has no relationship whatsoever with KDE.

a non-GNOME (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting with the GNOME settings manager.

IIRC KDE has its own GTK theme manager! That would explain why this problem doesn't appear in 5.8 Standard and why the font settings in GNOME on SOHO are the same as the ones set in the KDE GTK theme manager....

The KDE GTK theme manager generates a gtkrc, but that doesn't seem to play nicely with GNOME, so simply remove it and restart X with ctrl+alt+backspace and log into gnome again.

After removing the above mentioned files, run the GNOME theme manager and the Crux theme should now have a preview and you should be able to select it just fine. It may take several seconds to apply so just be patient

This fixed it for me, but it it doesn't work for you then post back with extra details.

Thanks for the quick answer, indeed, after removing /root..gtkrc-2.0 I can finally choose another Theme. But I have to say: yours was the best already Maybe I'll hunt down later on for another theme if I feel like doing so.I was wondering if KDE needed that file, so I logged (after removing it) back into KDE RC2 and all my settings where lost. The shortcuts I made in the menu, the desktop backgrounds, .... So maybe for users who wish to use both, the'd better think twice. For me, as a new Gnome user, it doesn't bother me that much. But thanks again, for the effort!